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[Buy/Sell/Trade / Misc Vidgo Game Related Stuffs for Sale]

The first item up for sale is a Box (48 packs) of 1989 TOPPS Nintendo Game Packs.  The box is not in mint condition, but it is hard to actually find a box of these without a large black X on the top.  This is the reason I saved this one box.

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16 dollars shipped media mail, 22 dollars shipped priority with confirm.

This is a Super Mario Brothers Comic #1, Limited Edition in near mint condition:

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9 dollars shipped first class.

The next item up for sale is a Square Collectors VHS tape.  The Box has a little wear on it, mostly from the origional shipping process it went through:

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25 dollars shipped first class with delivery confirm.

This little gem is a promotional Metal Gear Solid notebook with metal cover.  The first few pages feature artwork and the rest of the book is note paper.  Unlike most of the ones on ebay for 50 dollars, this one is not damaged!:

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35 dollars shipped first class with delivery confirm.

This next item is a 1989 Mario Pencil in MINT condition:

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Make offers over PM.

The last item up for now is a Sonic Pencil, I am not sure the year on it, but it is old.  I has been sharpened due to the fact that there was a contect involving the lead color.  Anyways:

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Make offers over PM.

(All prices shipped are in the US, payment over paypal preferred)

[PC-FX Discussion / Which screwdriver opens the FX?]

Anyone know which driver I need to order to open this baby up?

[Off-Topic / My new custom shelf]

Ok, it's in a small closet so it is hard to photograph, you'll have to maybe twist your brain a little to take it all in.

It has four shelves.  Two are 14" high and two are 7" high.  It is 13" deep, 22" wide, I think 44 and 1/2" high or so.  I made it from plywood and staples, as well as a little glue.

The bar in the middle of the closet is blocking your view of some of the games, but there wasn't a lot I could do about that.

Top (On top is my ram tester and my box of old ram.)
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Bottom (Yes, a gaming shelf that Yuna massive edition actually fits on )
I need more LD strorage space though lol, I still have a box of them in the shed.  And you cannot see them, but hidden behind the wooden bar are some anime books, arcade laser disc games and laseractive games.
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Whole view...well partial whole lol
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[Off-Topic / Your Parents]

I've never had a good relationship with my parents, at least for very long at a time.  For all of their BS talk about wanting to have a good relationship with their kids, they just never follow through.  It has taken me many years to realize it too, but it's basically all their damn fault.  I really don't think they ever wanted children and that they would have both been happier with a dog. 

It's a little hard to say this, but to be perfectly honest they never invested anything into me, but they expected the world from me, just because I was autistic.  You'd think most parents would expect less from their autistic, asmatic, immune difficent, etc child, but no...  My dad expected me to do everything that he didn't do in his childhood, because of similar problems he has!!!   My mom is another story, but lets just say that her expectations were equally insane.  So instead of nurturing anything I was good at, they forced me to only do things I couldn't or was totally inept to do.  After my dad stopped playing the NES himself, they pretty much fought my video game interests up until oh say 2001.  I could have gone on from middleschool to be a game developer.  I can see it now myself going over my old projects.  I could have been a novel writer, right out of 5th or 6th grade.  My writings from then are better and more facinating than books I have read in the last 10 years.  I let a friend read some while he helped me organize boxes and he agreed.  There are several other jobs I could have gone on to do directly from the 6th grade.

However they activly fought against anything I was good at, finding fault in it.  I only have 3 christmas/birthday presents from my parents in my whole life that I care anything for.  That is about 1 present every 10 years worth getting!  FUCK.  I give them something each year which is generally awesome.  Something they actually want too.  Hell, my parents actually made my buy them specific gifts for christmas and birthdays every year.  Because they made me work for them at little to no pay working their shipping department (as a child!) I always had money saved up...which I would get to spend on them   This seems abusive to me today as well as many of their other practices.

My mother literally used to say all the time, and she really ment this with her heart
"When you have children, you can make them do whatever you want."

This is the love I know from my own parents.

In fact my parents were always looking for angles to use my sister and I.  Weither it was lying to public officials, having my younger sister shoplift, lying for them to countless other adults, or using us in some way to get benifits which they could spend on themselves...  They were always looking for an angle.  Sadly my younger sister has latched on to some of these ways

My mother was especially in my younger years, a drug using, bi-polar, alcoholic...which ment she was SUPER unpredictable.  It also ment anything good she promised she would quickly forget after.  I don't know if this was a common practice in the 80's, but by the time I was 6, she would send me to the store 10 blocks down the hill to buy her beer and cigs, which the store worker would get for me (the beer) and bag it, and then I had to haul it back up the hill to the house.  I always apparently told her as a child I always wanted to play with her, but she never took the time.  Why is it my memories are full of beer trips instead of...well you know...it's too hard to say, I'll fall apart totally if I try to express it.

I hate that I love them...I wish to god that I could sometime break myself off from that personal abusive cycle.  I hate they EVERYTIME I start to trust one of them, they totally let me down.  It's a very scary thing to say, but they should have put me up for adoption.  At least then they would haven given me a fighting chance.  I've learned, painfully, I am much better on my own than with them.  God that's painful to say.  Every desierable quality I have, is one that I fostered and said was more valid than what they preached.  The only thing they taught me was how to endure endless torment without loosing all of my sanity.

So....how is the relationship between you and your parents?  If anyone wants to say anything on the subject, good or bad, anything they just feel they want to say, feel free.

[PC-FX Discussion / The Evolving FX Collection (picture thread)]

Since there wasn't any topic like this yet, I have decided to start a FX collection picture thread.  Feel free to reply and then use that one reply with edits over time to show your collection as it grows.  This is the majority of my collection as of the posting date.  Enjoy the eyecandy:

Collection as of thread beginning:

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-Oct 28th, 2008-

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[PC-FX Discussion / Battle Heat Review up on Pcenginefan]

pcenginefan.blogspot.com/2008/09/battle-heat-by-missafx.html

More FX goodness for you wonderful people

[PC-FX Discussion / Ruruli Ra Rura review up on PC-Engine Fan]

http://pcenginefan.blogspot.com/2008/09/ruruli-ra-rura-pc-fx-by-missafx.html

Clicky and enjoy.

[PC-FX Discussion / Missa's FX Game Misconception Listing]

1. All games are one or two players:  Wrong, Super Power League FX supports up to 8 controllers!

2. PC-FX games will warn you if you do not have enough save memory to make one save game on boot:  Wrong, Ruruli Ra Rura doesn't.

3. Most games save directly to the FX-BMP on installed: Wrong, only one game does save to the internal card (info comming from nat)

4. The FX can reset by pressing and holding select then start: For whatever reason, Last Imperianl Prince prefers you use the load option it comes with and locks out soft resetting the FX.

More to come.

[PC-FX Discussion / Ruruli Ra Rura noobie help needed]

Once you get the sword from the bat.  You can get the chest way to the left after the exit.  You can open the way to the spider land.  But in spiderland I do not seem to be able to walk on the diagional mountain to get to the rock like it seems you should be able to.

What am I supposed to do?  I have tried almost everything to get out of the noob zone and I seem trapped

[PC-FX Discussion / Super Power League FX - 8 Players???]

So I have noticed that this game lets you assign up to 8 players.  I was wondering if anyone had any information on if they planned to make a multitap for the FX?  Since this game came out in 1996, earlier into the life of the FX I find it strange there is this option, but no multitap.

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[Off-Topic / Does anyone have an asthma machine they don't need to use anymore?]

Hey guys, just minutes ago my asthma machine blew some part inside.  I decided to open it up right away, but discovered it is mostly glued together.  As you all know I do not have health insurance and that comming up with one could be difficult.  A lot of people get these machines for one lung infection or something and hardly if ever use them again, so I just thought I would see if anyone had one they would be willing to part with for the cost of shipping and I'd be willing to buy you a game or something in its place.

I also do not have inhalers, so I gotta feel my fingers out in every direction I can to get a way to breath easly again soon.  Sorry to bother you guys with this.

[Off-Topic / Avoid ebay scammer "pricemistake" at all costs]

Hello everyone,
Remember that 5GB microdrive I ordered?

Item number:
250290248011


Payment Method: PayPal
Date of Payment: 09/04/08
Date of Dispute: 09/08/08
Seller Contact: No-I have not attempted to call

Customer concern: Hello,
I purchased a HD from a seller and after 4 days they apparently lied to you guys and said that I and them had mutually agreed to withdraw from the transaction.  It is untrue!
"An Unpaid Item dispute has been opened for the following item: Seagate ST1 5GB 5 GB MicroDrive CompactFlash CF II Card (#250290248011)
Reason given for Unpaid Item: We have both agreed not to complete the transaction.
Buyer actions reported by seller: The buyer returned the item for a refund."

I paid for the item on the 4th, how is this an unpaid item?  Further I used a pre-paid credit card to make these transactions which I no longer have because I used it up.  Therefore the paypal refund is totally useless to me, I have no way to ever, ever see that money again.  Totally useless and a slap in the face when they lie saying I made any agreement with them.  The only agreement we had was the one they made to sell the item by listing it on ebay and by accepting my payment.  The seller has not once contacted me, not emailed me, nothing.

I said to ebay that the seller and I made no such agreement (With your button option) and I said the following "I have not made any agreement with the seller and I was expecting the item to arrive by today or tomorrow.

I expect to recieve my HD soon."

To which ebay then closed it:
"The Unpaid Item dispute has been closed for the following reason:
Buyer rejected the transaction withdrawal."

So I rejected it...but what happens now?  I expect my HD or at the very least money I can use.  The shipping they were charging was high too in the first place, I am guessing to dodge some closeing value fees.  This is a 1 inch drive, which cannot weigh much more than 50 grams.

I only have about 20 minutes on my cell phone right now and I am disabled, so I cannot just magically make money appear to try to talk to this person over the phone.  Otherwise I would have at least tried that.  I normally would contact them through ebay too first, but since they are lying and saying I agreed to back out of this transaction without talking to me first, I am going straight to you guys since they are not playing ball by the rules.

Oh and I noticed that they re-listed my item for sale probably a day after I won it or less: http://cgi.ebay.com/Seagate-ST1-5GB-5-GB-MicroDrive-CompactFlash-CF-II-Card_W0QQitemZ250291932912QQihZ015QQcategoryZ31388QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Thank you for any help you can provide,

[PC-FX Discussion / Last Imperial Prince help]

Ok, so I decided to start over on LIP to maximise my GP earning and I am stuck so close to the beginning it is laughable.  After the female in the party gets moved from the Inn to the "Church", and you go into the woods, climb the rope and get the gem, then bring the gem back to her...then you get kicked out of the room just like you did before having the gem.  What do I do next?  I sware I have explored all the forest, talked to everyone in the town, the guard will not let me pass until I have her back into my party...

I just know I am gonna when I hear the answer.

[Off-Topic / Risingstuff.com]

Well, I'm hearing this morning from some little birdies that a conversation I had with guyjin the other day might have been misread by some people.  I'm also going to take this minute to talk in general about my experiences with Risingstuff.com.

To clarify, I was praising Risingstuff.com, and here is why:

So I ordered two games I needed Blue Chicago Blues and Dragon Knight 4.  For whatever reason the wholesaler took about 2 weeks to get the game to sensei here, and in that time some other games I had ordered already had came in.  Still waiting for DK4, I asked sensei here to send me another of the games, which was already there waiting to come to america.  He does and BCB and Last Imperial Prince arrive.

None of this had anything to do with the conversation yesterday, but for the sake of the whole story I have included it.

So yesterday afternoon I am making room on the FX shelves for these games, while as I am filing BCB away, what comes to my fingertips, but Angelique in Wonderland...A game I had just ordered from Risingsuff.com  Because there is no online collectors list...yet, I keep a directory on my PC with dummy text files, named after each FX game I have.  I keep another directory of all the games I do not have.  When I get a game I move the txt file from one directory to the other.  Somehow Angelique in Wonderland was the ONLY game I had never moved over to the owned directory   This game directory with English or Romanji names I use as my quick reference whenever I buy a FX game, to make sure I do not have it.  So when I recently ordered 5 games from Risingstuff.com and checked that directory, I thought I didn't have the game yet.  Anyways, I emailed Alex, sensei's partner in the store and I asked him if my games had shipped yet, and if not, if there was any way I could swap for another game.  I remembered Langrisser was only 3 dollars more and I needed it, so I asked if they could swap for it and I would just pay the difference in the game price and shipping (if any).

Alex got back to me within the hour and told me that my package was going out that day, but that we could change the game.  He mentioned nothing of price, so I emailed him right back and asked him how much he needed me to send him.  He emailed me right back and told me not to worry about it

That's some damn fine customer service!

[Off-Topic / Laptops - A Solid State do-it-yourself FAQ - v 0.2]

Hello everyone,
I have decided to make a little guide here which will be helpful to people considering converting their laptop to solid state on the cheap.  This guide is for pcengine-fx.com only and may not be re-printed in any other form or on any other website.  This guide was written entirely by me except the one part I borrowed from Wikipedia as stated below.  Stealing faqs is not only fattening but can increase your chances of cancer.  You've been warned.

Version 0.2 - Corrections + More Partition Information
Version 0.1 - Alpha FAQ
(C) 2008 - PhantasyStudios

Because of the speed differences between Compact Flash cards and other flash memories, I have only considered using CF cards (and Microdrives) for this conversion.

Considerations and Limitations:
CF 4.0 cards come formatted as a removable drive with a flag so that all windows partition managers will ignore the drive.  This can be overcome with dos software or with linux.

CF cards over 4GB cannot be mounted to the PCMCIA bus.

Flash memory usually can write 100,000-1,000,000 times to sector 0, but they do not really know how many writes all the other parts of the card will handle.  Because of this, you must control Window's use of the page file or put the page file on a PCMCIA CF while the OS is on the internally mounted CF.  Or you can put the page file on a ramdisk, but there can be problems with this as well on the OSs that need it most.

CF cards generally run 1/14th to 3/14ths the cost of a real solid state drive.

DMA buffering can become an issue on windows 2000 and newer, this can result in "sparkles" in your mp3 playback.  I am trying to find a fix to this short of storing the mp3s on a ramdisk or a CD/DVD disc.  In Windows 98 you can set DMA buffers which help, and on the older P1 and P2 laptops it is really a crapshoot how well this will fix it.  This does not make programs work badly however.  Now really causes any issue browsing the web or viewing your favorite hentai picture collection (infact pictures and directories with MANY files load really, really, really fast on a 133X card).  This DMA buffering problem is I think caused by the fact that CF cards do not have a buffer like HDs do.

DOS and Windows 9x are really the ideal CF OSs, but 2000 and XP can be installed if you know what you are doing.

The following describes how fast of a card you need for the cpu of laptop you have.  It's not any trouble to use a faster card in PC laptops, but these speeds will tell you about what you need to have, to make the CF work as good as a HD in a range of machines:
CPU: Pentium I    Pentium II    Pentium III    Pentium IV
CFS:    80X            133X       133X-266X    266X-300X
OSs: DOS, 95      95, 98, 2k    98, 2k, XP     98, 2k, XP

Multi Level Cell VS Single Level Cell (from wikipedia):
MLC NAND flash is a flash memory technology using multiple levels per cell to allow more bits to be stored as opposed to SLC NAND flash technologies, which uses a single level per cell. Currently, most MLC NAND stores four states per cell, so the four states yield two bits of information per cell. This reduces the amount of margin separating the states and results in the possibility of more errors.

MLC NAND has the benefit of being cheaper due to the denser storage method used, but software complexity can be increased to compensate for a larger bit error ratio (BER).

The higher BER requires an algorithm that can correct errors up to five bits and detect the condition of more than five bad bits. The most commonly used algorithm is Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH code).

Conclusion?  Get SLC CF cards for OSs newer than Win98 if you can afford to.

Required Hardware:
The following website has most of the parts you could need, they are cheap and they all have free shipping.
http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.313

You may also need to order a PCMCIA to CF adapter.  Which can be found for about 6 dollars on ebay.
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37.l1313&satitle=sandisk+pcmcia+CF+adapter&category0=

The most common part you will need to do this is a 2.5" CF laptop adapter or a 1.8" CF laptop adapter.  These adapters are a long green board which plugs into the same socket your HD used to use. (From dealextreme)

As of the time of this writing I know of only one source for a dual CF to 44 IDE adapter (1.8" size):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320292984484

Though I am not covering desktops in this guide, many internal IDE adapters for CF cards can also be used.  266 or 300X cards make fine OS drives in a desktop as long as you put the swap file on a real HD.

You may also require a CF to USB adapter for some operations:
http://www.etechisland.com/product_info.php?cPath=536&products_id=30962&osCsid=0486c29c161a8b9e55fb208323b65658

Some people may also find a Microdrive (non solidstate) can meet some of their secondary needs.

Required Software:
Internal CF only, single partition - fdisk, fdisk /mbr
Internal CF only, multi partition - HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, fdisk or other partition manager
Bootable external CF - HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, fdisk or other partition manager
Ghost 7.5 or 8.0 can be very, very handy to have.  Ghost 8.0 has its own USB drivers, Ghost 7.5 can mount USB drives which are given a DOS driver or a BIOS pre-boot driver, the latter of which is starting to pop up on new machines with only serial ATA drives.

Ghost - The DOS versions of ghost, 7.5 and 8.0 are both wonderful tools for many PC projects.  However Ghost can be VERY helpful in setting up the partition table of your CF.  Want more than 2 Primary DOS partitions?  Yup you can do that.  Want to mix FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS?  Yup Ghost will let you do that too.  You see, it seems for whatever reason, you can only alter the partition table of a CF once per formatting.  So it is not possible to make one partiton, and then add another and then add another.  You have to write them all in one pass.
What I do is to set up the partitions I want on a HD.  I used a 20GB HD as a simulation 16GB CF card.  Using Disc Managment in Windows 2000 (or in XP or Vista) I wrote a 4GB FAT32 partition to it, then made it active and a dos bootable system disk for windows 98se.  I then wrote another FAT32 partition to it, this one 2GB for windows 2000.  I wrote a 3rd partition which was a 8.9GB NTFS and then read this 20GB disc into Ghost 7.5.  I made an image of the HD with the boot option selected, high compression.   I then put this image back onto the 20GB HD and wrote the information from it to my 16GB CF.  I used 15GB in my formatting estimation, so it made my partitions all slightly bigger than they were to use this extra space.
If you put this card now in a USB card reader, you can only read the first partition.  But if you put it into an internal reader device, you can use and view all the partitions normally, like if they were on a HD.  I am guessing this is because of a bug/limitation in the code for removable disc drives.

The following picture is what my 16GB CF looks like after formatting with Ghost (Note: this is a Dual CF setup)
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I can make custom, empty ghost disc images for people to put the partition table they want on their CF as long as time permits if you cannot figure out how to do it yourself.  Just PM me with the subject Ghost Help.


I will now break the modifications down into 4 levels:

1 - The Non-mod:
This modification or lack thereof is one where you buy a 4GB or smaller CF card or Microdrive and put it into a CF to PCMCIA converter card.
Result - The laptop now has more drive space to store files.
Drawbacks - Accessing a PCMCIA card uses CPU time like USB does, a PCMCIA card typically takes 1/14th or less the power a HD does, but this does use a little bit more battery power.
Advantages - You do not have to modify anything. With an internal HD OS, you can in most cases, use this to store more MP3s.

2 - Single Internal CF:
This modification uses an internal converter board which takes CF into 44 pin IDE.
Result - The laptop is now fully solid starte.
Drawbacks - CF cards do not have their own buffer, because of this streaming audio or video files off the internal CF is extreemly hard if not impossible without getting *sparkle* in your audio.  This can be overcome by using a ramdisk to store the file you wish to stream to winamp or windows media player or by putting your MP3s on a CD/DVD and then loading them into the ramdisk from that drive.  Windows 2000 and later have a swapfile which might cause problems for your CF card down the road, mostly if it is a MLF card.  MPG, WMV and AVI files seem to play back 100% fine.
Advantages - Your laptop probably gained about 40% additional running time since the "HD" now takes 5-10% of the power of the HD you just removed.  No HD noise.  HD cannot crash if you drop the laptop.

3 - Double Internal CF:
This modification uses an internal converter board which takes 2 CF cards into 44 pin IDE.
Result - The laptop is now fully solid state.
Drawbacks - CF cards do not have their own buffer, because of this streaming audio or video files off the internal CF is extreemly hard if not impossible without getting *sparkle* in your audio.  This can be overcome by using a ramdisk to store the file you wish to stream to winamp or windows media player or by putting your MP3s on a CD/DVD and then loading them into the ramdisk from that drive.  MPG, WMV and AVI files seem to play back 100% fine.  By having the second card, which can be a smaller 2-4GB card, Windows 2000 and later have a dedicated swapfile disc, which will save you from loosing your system CF from tons of swapfile writes.
Advantages - Your laptop probably gained about 30-35% additional running time since the "HD" now takes 10-20% of the power of the HD you just removed.  No HD noise.  HD cannot crash if you drop the laptop.

3b - Single Internal CF with PCMCIA swap CF:
This modification uses an internal converter board which takes 1 CF card into 44 pin IDE.  And it requires a PCMCIA to CF adapter.
Result - The laptop is now fully solid state.
Drawbacks - CF cards do not have their own buffer, because of this streaming audio or video files off the internal CF is extreemly hard if not impossible without getting *sparkle* in your audio.  This can be overcome by using a ramdisk to store the file you wish to stream to winamp or windows media player or by putting your MP3s on a CD/DVD and then loading them into the ramdisk from that drive.  MPG, WMV and AVI files seem to play back 100% fine.  By having the second card, which can be a smaller 2GB card, Windows 2000 and later have a dedicated swapfile disc, which will save you from loosing your system CF from tons of swapfile writes.  However the PCMCIA bus might be slower than your internal IDE bus on the laptop.
Advantages - Your laptop probably gained about 30-35% additional running time since the "HD" now takes 10-20% of the power of the HD you just removed.  No HD noise.  HD cannot crash if you drop the laptop.

4 - CF-FX:
This modification uses an internal converter board which takes 1 CF card and 1 Microdrive into 44 pin IDE.
Your laptop must support 3.3v IDE power!!!
I personally suggest this drive: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/seagate-st1-5gb.html
A typical price on ebay is about 14 dollars with shipping for one or less as of 9/1/08.
Result - Your laptop OS is now solid state as well as many of your files.  But your swapfile and streaming media are stored on a Microdrive which has a standard buffer so it will not sparkle.
Drawbacks - Microdrives use more power than a CF, but not a terrable amount.  Microdrives will generally fail if you drop one while it is in operation from 4 feet or more.
Advantages - You get basically 90% of the advantages of running solid state, while not being affected by any of the dwawbacks.  However this method costs the most to do.

4b - CF-FXb:
Same as the CF-FX, but you add a 2nd CF card via a PCMCIA port, or even heck 2 more

[Off-Topic / Forced off the net by spyware]

Hello all,
I don't know what the crap is going on with my dad's pc, but for some reason it downloads 30 megs of data every time I connect to the internet or let it run for an hour or two.  This is why my bandwith maxxed out so fast this month   I cannot find any process or update doing this and unless I want to start getting raped by charges, I will have little choice but to not use the internet for some time.

I will pop in a few times if I can before then, but see you guys on the 14th

[PC-FX Discussion / FX Rolecall! If you have adopted a FX, sign up here!]

Hello everyone, my name is Missa and I am a FX addict.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTS - Ah My Goddess - 10 dollars + 3 shipping first class - USA]

The discs play fine, have some very, very tiny light scratches.  It includes the manual and the edge card.  $10 dollars + 3 shipping in the US and it is yours.  I ask that you pls include 40 cents extra paypal fee which would make the game $13.40 shipped.
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[Off-Topic / 5cm tall plastic anime figure, 700 dollars shipping!?!?]

holycrap, a new level of ebay stupidity...
http://cgi.ebay.com/DORAEMON-Anime-Mini-GashaPon-Capsule-Station-Pioneer_W0QQitemZ350092325324QQihZ022QQcategoryZ106887QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

700 dollars to ship a 5cm figure?  What do they have to smuggle it to the US in their ass?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Mobile Suit Gundam Glasses set of 5 + box]

I don't know what I am going to ask for this yet, but it won't be cheap.  I thought though I would see if there was any mega Gundam fan here as this is one of the two shining jewels of my anime collection and it would look wonderful in the collection of any mega Gundam fan.  All of that text which looks like little black lines are 100% readable.  I must stress these glasses are unused and 100% mint.  The box considering it is about 26-28 years old I would rate a 7 out of 10.  The worst damage to it is the one visable crease on the left.  Most of those little defect looking things along the bottom of the box are a result of how the box was made, not from wear damage.  These gasses, were never sold in stores, they were only available for a limited time around 1980 in Japan to people who sent in MANY proofs of purchase for Japanese drinks and is VERY rare. I am sorry I cannot post a price, but I am just not sure what I am willing to accept for them yet.  Feel free to ask questions and make offers though for the next couple of days.  Then I am gonna list it super expensive buy it now on ebay.

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[Feedback / Smiles on the shoutbox?]

Where did the smiles go from the shoutbox?  I and others do not seem to have them anymore.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / (Closed)]

The outer envelope has been opened, but the shrinkwrap is still on the inner contents and the serial has not been used on any PC ever.  It was origionally ordered off newegg which sells it for $140.  The cheapest, and I mean cheapest, most shady dealer on ebay is selling it for $88 (who personally I probably wouldn't buy from).  Lots of people on ebay seem to be selling it for over 100 in the same shrinkwrapped condition as mine, but no outer envelope.

Hmmm, Lets say 77 + 3 dollars paypal fee, shipped first class.

I can provide a pic if needed, but I am not gonna bother unless someone needs to see it for some reason.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / (Closed)]

I have a set of Laptop memory chips, new in package.
If anyone wants them before I resort to evilbay, I am willing to sell them for 75.00 + 3 dollars paypal fee, shipped first class in the US (anything else you want added to the shipping would be extra).  They are 99.00 on evilbay or newegg. 
I couldn't find a way to get a picture of them without using a flash, sorry.

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[Buy/Sell/Trade / This is just insane...]

http://search.stores.ebay.com/Schenas-Corner_pc-fx_W0QQfciZQ2d1QQfclZ4QQfsnZSchenaQ27sQ20CornerQQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQsaselZ14265034QQsatitleZQ22pcQ2dfxQ22QQsofpZ0

Holy !!!

I have never seen worse prices on FX games.  Never in my life.

[Off-Topic / Japangamestock.com coupon]

Does anyone have a coupon code from their newsletter or anything that I could use?
PM me if it is a one use thing pls.

Ty in advance.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / NEO 64mbit Flash Cart and Vista help needed]

Whenever I try to write to the flash cart on this new Vista machine, I get a connecting fault even though it says connecting success when I load the program.  Anyone encountered this?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / (PC Soft, 3 Copies) Digital Dreamware - New In Box!]

Hello guys,
I have come across a few copies of Digital Dreamware for the PC brand new in box, with the wrap still on.  If you want to own this quirky title, now is the time.  Trip back to 1994 when DOS was known for graphical demo excellence and enjoy the techno beats

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Minimum Requirements:
386 DX 25 or 386 SX 33
2MB RAM
MSCDEX.exe compatable Single Spin CD-ROM Drive or better
VGA Graphics Card
Mouse
Sound Card

Supported OSs:
MS Dos 6 or newer
Win 9x

Via DOS Box:
WinNT --> Win2003

I have been unable to get it to run in Vista so far because the PC with Vista does not have a MSCDEX compatable CD drive.  But if you have an older drive (2007 or older) it will probably work if you mess with the .bat files and burn a custom CD (you have to combine a few lines from run.bat into the beginning of dd.bat, then burn a new CD, load off DD.bat)  If the windows 98 startup disc lets you access your CD drive, it is MSCDEX compatable.  This is a very easy way to check unless the drive is a few years old or older, then it should probably work 99% of the time.

This CD also works as a music CD

I am going to sell these babies for $10.50 each (via PayPal), with shipping included.  One per person.  I reserve the right to do business with or without whom I choose, blah, blah, blah.  Oh and I only have 2 good shipping boxes atm, I am working on finding a 3rd right now to fit the last game. 

Lastly, the carpet as shown in the pic is not for sale

[General Gaming / I need help with a custom PS2 HD job]

So the other day I was helping ceti get some ram for his musical keyboard when I had an idea like being struck by a bolt of lightning.  My American release PS2 usually does the disc read error unless I put it on its side, pray to several gods and maybe bribe a few too so I have more or less stopped using it   My Japanese release PS2 on the other hand plays flawlessly to this day dispite having many more hours of use under its belt.  The problem with the Japanese PS2 is that it uses a PCMCIA HD because at the time, there wasn't enough free space inside the PS2 to fit a HD bay .  As you may know they didn't make a lot of PCMCIA HDs to sell to the public so I had the crazy idea of using a PCMCIA to CF adapter to simulate a HD in the PS2.  However, I have looked into formatting the CF card and it seems I will have to buy some kind of HD loader program to format a non Sony drive.

There doesn't happen to be anyone on here who owns this software and who modified the bios of their PS2 so that it is no longer needed and might want to sell it is there?

The cool thing about setting up a "HD" this way is that the HD will be fully internal!  Everything will just tuck neatly into that PCMCIA port \o/  A Sandisk Ultra III card is probably faster than the HD Sony sold anyway.

[General Gaming / New PSP Kernal "Utopia"]

As Stolen from QJ.net:

These are the main points in Mathieulh's Utopia post as he detailed what he and Silverspring have decided so far:

The utopia official forums will be hosted among the lan.st forums.

The public release of utopia has been decided and will take effect as soon as I find time to setup the svn and forum sections.

Despite the project going public, the project is not done yet, thus you cannot (yet) compile a whole kernel from the soon to be supplied sources. We are looking forward seeing people contributing to complete the utopia project.

What we do not know about yet is if utopia will use GPL license or BSD but it is likely to be BSD.

The svn will be readable by everyone but only a few trusted people will be able to update it (so people do not start messing up with the svn by deleting changes or adding irrelevant ones). If you want to contribute to the utopia project you will have to send your code to the forums where it will be added by the staff to the svn later. People who often contribute to utopia will be granted write access to the svn as well.

If you're not familiar on what exactly Utopia does, it's to be an open source PSP kernel designed specifically for homebrew and development. It's going to use up over 1MB of RAM, perhaps 2MB at most. It's going to be fully documented and divided into two parts: one for developers (who need debugging tools, SDK) and one for homebrewers who want to run software on their PSP designed with it.

"Once completed and stable the utopia kernel is to be implemented as a new operative mode in future custom firmwares," posts Mathieulh.

Lastly, here's what Utopia can and can't do, according to Mathieulh:

Utopia is not meant to run Sony's code, thus current homebrews or games wont run on it.

Utopia will not feature UMD drive support of any kind.

Utopia will not feature any kind of DRM functionalities (at least this is not planned)

Utopia will most likely not feature any kirk engine support.
Wlan is planned but not a priority at this point.

No vsh or graphic interface of any kind is to be included in utopia or officially supported by the utopia project. Utopia is ONLY the kernel,
if you want to code your own shell on top of it, feel free to do so.

The utopia kernel is NOT based on Linux, freebsd or any other open source project (unlike uClinux for exemple) , it is based on the 3.71 IPL reverse engineering. (and later on existing kernel modules reverse)

Woohoo, maybe Ur Quan Masters can be re-worked to work in this kernal without crashing at times \o/

[Off-Topic / I suck]

Sorry I have not visited or posted in a month.  I am still alive   I just have had little time for gaming sadly.  I'll come back tomorrow and check out everything, but I am just posting now to say 'hi".

Take care everyone!

[Off-Topic / How many active members do we have here on a monthly basis?]

Ok people, this will stay open for 30 days to see how much individual traffic we get here on PCenginefx.  Come out of the closet lurkers and trolls, this is the one poll you should reply to if you reply to no other polls this year.

[Off-Topic / Minneapolis, MN strikes again!!!]

Recently I purchased some games from Rover which ended up getting shipped to MN because of a scammer...

Anyways this cursed place has struck again when I got the following email from Netflix

MORAL OREL: VOL. 1: DISC 1 was not available at your local shipping center. Instead, we will be shipping this movie from Minneapolis, MN on the next business day. As usual, you will receive a movie shipped email confirming the shipment.

Huh?  They are shipping it to me from the other side of the US?  It is a movie listed as available now AND there are Netflix sites all over the west coast.  Half the time I get a disc from another state it arrives cracked to boot!

My next disc:

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SEASON 2.0: DISC 3 was not available at your local shipping center. Instead, we will be shipping this movie from Tacoma, WA on the next business day. As usual, you will receive a movie shipped email confirming the shipment.

Lastly my third disc:

Masters of Horror: Lucky McKee: Sick Girl was not available at your local shipping center. Instead, we will be shipping this movie from Minneapolis, MN on the next business day. As usual, you will receive a movie shipped email confirming the shipment.

o_0  0_o  Ummm why god?  Why?  I was supposed to have one of the first two discs for when I went to my father's for dinner on Wed (he lives in the country with no TV service available, so I bring something like a TV series he would be interested in so he can kinda keep in touch with the outside world).  At least shipping from Washington is ok, but I have only maybe had 10 discs sent from other states in all the years I have been with netflix and now 3 all in 1 day???

[Buy/Sell/Trade / I need a cheap CGII compatable multitap]

That pretty much says it all.  I need a cheap multitap for the CGII, it doesn't have to have a box.  Links to stores, auctions or people personally selling them are all welcomed.

Ty in advance.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / My CG II actually arrived today]

It took like 60 days, but my CG II has finally arrived.  I am pretty annoyed that Hit-Japan has refused to respond to any of my emails since the 3rd of Feb.  I have no idea what their problem was, but I am just glad it is here.  I do have one question though, is it normal for it to sometimes boot up with just like a white screen?  But if you turn it off and back on it will boot the game normally?

[Off-Topic / 1-900-nerd-girl]

Live out your unrealistic fantasies now!

[General Gaming / Where do you put your Virtual Boy to actually play it without neck damage?]

Personally I have mine on top of a bookshelf, which is in the hallway of my Apt.  Such that when people walk in, it is often the first thing they see.  On top of the bookshelf, most people can play comfortably because I have removed the bottom 2 shelves on it, so you kinda stand inside the bookshelf when you play.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Well, at least my PC-Engine case is here at least]

The case I settled on came out to 50 dollars with shipping.




It is 19.7" Length x 10.25" Width x 4.5" Height.  Not too big, not too small.  And it is also 5 dimensional inches below the limit for an airline carry-on.

I have been messing around with configurations and using a CD case as a CG stand-in, I believe I will be able to store:

The CG II
AC adaptor
Video cable
A stack of games
1 PC-E controller (I could put in two if they were one on top of the other)
1 PS1 dual shock controller
1 multi tap
1 PS1 --> PC-E converter (I could fit 2 like with the PC-E controller, but I would have to carry the 4th controller outside of the case).

You can purchase it here: Link to Store

[General Gaming / Advance Wars - Days of Ruin]

Well lately I have been putting a lot of hours into the new advance wars title.  Yesterday when I was showing it to a friend we realized that you can play up to a 4 player game on 1 DS.  It really reminds me of those old DOS turn based games where you would take turns sitting at the computer.  The people who programmed this title also put in a grey screen to cover up the gameplay when you change players, so that the person before does not see any troop placements of the person that comes after them.  It also hides the income each person has so you only see your income on your turn.

I do wish the COs were not part of the game though, I would like it more as a straight up war sim.

I have done just over 24 missions so far and I must say the difficulty of the levels seems a lot more balanced than the last DS advance wars.

[Off-Topic / Portable Computers - teh pwn]

I was talking about the portable one, the Kaypro 2000 or whatever it was.

The Kaypro II, 4 and 10 had CRTs.

My parents got me a Kaypro 4 in 1984 or 85. Like you, it was my first computer ever. I learned rudimentary BASIC and Pascal programming on it. I remember one year for Christmas I programmed my parents some crude calculating programs in Pascal and compiled them. I created a a whole box packaged for the disks and everything.

I spent many hours playing the Colossal Cave Adventure game on that thing.

Anyway, we've hijacked AirRaidX's topic. Let's create a new thread if we want to continue this discussion.

The Kaypro II was "portable" though, the fold up keyboard proclaimed it as such.  I had the dual floppy discs, my dad had a friend who had a HD though, I remember it loaded the games a lot faster, something which seems pretty sad now.

I learned to read things more advanced that a children's book on the Kaypro II because I was 5 at the time.  Playing games like Planetfall, Zork I and a bunch of other infocom games really helped me stay ahead of children my own age.  I remember vividly crying over the death of Floyd too...err well I'm pretty sure that was his name.  You guys all know how great I am with remembering names at this point.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / What Hucard am I?]

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[General Gaming / Worst Games to Ever be Published Thread]

Here's a thread dedicated to games based on ideas which should have ended up in the trash bin, yet somehow ended up becomming published games.

My pick: Cyberdillo - 3DO
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(The things in the background are enemies you fight...really)

I mean, what were they thinking making a FPS where you shoot plungers?  Maybe at the time they had read the news story about the man raped to death with a plunger at the hands of police on the east coast of the US and they thought, "yeah a plunger, that's hard core!  Lets make a crappy version of Doom!"  I've heard from numerous sources that this game was supposed to be family friendly, who in their right mind though would think that a family friendly FPS would sell more than a handful of copies?  The music is uninspired, feeling flat and lifeless.  The levels are full of pixilated crap which looks far worse than even the 3DO version of Doom (which is by far one of the worst ports ever made) and it is impossible to at any time take this game seriously.

The best thing about Cyberdillo is the fact that it was soooo crappy, it assured a sequel would never, ever be produced.  Had someone simply re-skinned Doom, the game might have then at least been fun to play and the world might have had to endure a Cyberdillo 2.  Thank god it didn't.

From Mobygames:
"Yet another disco armadillo first-person shooter."

After being run over by a car, our hero Armadillo is brought back to life by an evil cyber-genetic company. He sets out to stop their evil plans in psychedelic 70's era levels when disco was king. Gather items such as bell bottoms, platform shoes, 8-track players, and lava lamps to keep your shield and funk levels up.

Rather than guns, you shoot plungers and throw princess wands at various enemies such as flying eye balls and laughing gas containers. Open doors as you move through each level (of 4 stages each) and find the specific item needed to advance to the next stage. Stop lights hang from the ceiling in certain areas and will drain your health if you pass under them when they are red. When green, you can pass them with no consequence. There are different special weapons, health (such as crickets and grass hoppers) and shield items in each level. If you run into a Relax laxative box, you will have to find a toilet in 20 seconds or you will die.

[Off-Topic / Lets Speak!: Fuck]

I love the natural progression of the conversation.  I like you.  Come over...

[Feedback / Is it possible to have a board trade rating system?]

I was wondering if it was possible to have a way for people to leave comments on each other's profiles or something like that when people make sales and trades with each other.  This way we could have a local reputation so to speak which might help people have an indicator if a person is known to be reliable or not.

I see positives and negatives to this but I was just wondering it if was possible and what other people thought of it.

[High Score Records / Chip Chan Kick - High Scores]

I'm sure there's people with better scores than me, but I am just starting it off.
The stage listed is the stage you run out of lives on.

Easy
1,163,500 stage 3-10 - dfrost

Normal
636,000 stage 3-1 - dfrost
505,200 - Stage: 4-1 - SuperDeadite
306,XXX - Stage 3-6 - Missa

Hard
120,700 1-10 - dfrost

[PC-FX Discussion / Which demo disc has the bomberman game on it? How to you access it?]

The title pretty much says it all.

[PC-FX Discussion / Chip Chan Kick - W T F?]

I recently acquired Chip Chan Kick since it looked like a bubble bobble/rainbow islands type game however I have a few questions about it.

The game name is Chip Chan Kick, ok that makes sense, but why not Chip Chap Kick?

How old are the characters supposed to be?  I am kinda disturbed by the huge volume of panty shots on people who look 5, but the people who look 10 have the bodies of fully grown adults...so I am in the end utterly confused.  Is this supposed to be erotic?

How many levels does the game have?  Do you ever gain any modifications to your attacks like in bubble bobble?  Or is it the same gameplay over and over and over again?

(Don't think I hate the game though, I'm just wondering about these points.)

[Off-Topic / Tom Cruise and his new video]

Tom Cruise goes crazy and stuff...again

What drugs is this guy on?  He has totally lost his mind!

[General Gaming / PSP - FW 3.80-4 M33 update is out]

http://dark-alex.org/

Read the readme.txt file and don't mess with it if you don't understand it.  It seems to work well though and is much easier to install than previous firmwares.

[General Gaming / New PSP Keyboard, Vaporware or Not?]

"it was also revealed that the said peripheral will be made available during mid-2009"

[General Gaming / PC-E on the PSP]

You guys probably already know this, but just in case you own a PSP and have not heard in Oct a new PC-E emulator came out, and it works really well.  Really, really well actually.  It does require the 3.xx kernel to run however.

Since it has no readme, you put games in the folder with the program and select + left trigger takes you to the save state menu, pressing the right trigger from this menu will take you to the options menu.  From there you can choose a new game as well.

Link to dl.qj.net site